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BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. JANE 10, 1909
NO.44
HE TOOK THEM IN
An fscapid Convict Floocet
Many Seorgia Poopla.
POSED AS A RICH MAN
He Purchased Four Banks and Uaed
the Deposits, It Is Said, In Some
Remarkable Exploitations — His
«
Assets Less Than One Hundred
_ Dollars All Told.
High finance of a remarkable or
der by which, it Is alleged, Geor
gians have been swindled out of
$260,000 has come to light follow
ing the arrest of A. D. Oliver, presi
dent of the bank of Climax, Ga..
and three other banks In the south-
weetern part of the State.
Oliver arrived in Georgia last Jan
uary and professed to be an Eastern
capitalist. He displayed a great deal
of money and said that he had about
15,000,000 on deposit in banka In
New York city and elsewhere. He
announced that he Intended to In
vest these millions and that Georgia
■ulted him. Accordingly hs bought
timbered lands, sawmills, banks, au
tomobiles, etc. „
It is said he secured the ready
cash he needed through deposits In
his banks, in which the public had
confidence, and with partial pay
ments of cash, usually small amounts
he would buy other properties, giv
ing him to outward appearances
large holdings.
He controlled a bank at Climax, he
established one at Attapulgus, he
purchased one at Pelham, he purchas
ed a planing mill at Thomasvllle, one
at Pelham from D. M. Rogers, one of
the large lumber dealers In that part
of the State, and erected and put
Into active operation an enormouf
one at Climax. This is not the sum
of his operations.
The town of Climax is fast becom
ing a center of all sorts of manu
facturing and industrial enterprises
Oliver, has erected a $10,000 resi
dence and he is building several
brick stores.
While doing all this he found time
to make love to Miss May England,
end four weeks ago married her.
He gave the bride $5,000 in cash and
diamonds valued at $10,000.
The bubble burst when Oliver was
arrested on a warrant sworn out by
a Thomasvllle man to whom he had
given a New York draft for $10,-
000. The draft came back marked
"no funds," and Oliver was arrested.
Examiners took charge of the four
banks and they found less than $100
all told. In one bank at Thomaa-
ville there was only 50 cents. Just
one month ago Oliver bought foui
automobiles and presented them to
the cashiers of his four banks.
Oliver has been identified as-, ar
escaped convict with an unexpired
term of eleven years hanging ovei
his head. The identification, which
was made Thursday morning bv
Sheriff T. O. Jones, of Aberdeen
county, Miss., came as a climax to
the sensational arrest of Oliver sev
eral days ago, when he was fleein,;
with his young bride in a rented
automobile.
Sheriff Jones reached Bainbridg.
Thursday morning and immediate!.'
went to the jail. The moment hr
mw the ex-banker, he positively de
dared that the prisoner was a fug
ative from the Mississippi penlten
tlary, where he was known ar
Charlee Harding.
The sheriff said that Oliver es
raped from the Aberdeen penlten
tiary on December 31st, 1908, and
although the greatest efforts werr
made to capture him, he succeeded
iu making good his escape and al
trace was lost of the man. On thi
sixth day of January, this year, ex
actely seven days after the alleged
escape from the penitentiary, Olivet
arrived in Climax, Ga., the little
queen city of the lower Wiregrass
region.
The stranger entered the little
town absolutely penniless, but in
a very short time, he was reputed
to be worth millions and began buy
ing banka, saw mills and property
throughout the whole section of the
state. Oliver, in a few brief weeks,
became famous for his ready replies
to all propotlons, "I’ll take it, Just
wrap it up." This applied to land,
houses and stocks and In fact, every
thing that was purchasable.
He had the reputation of never
refusing to trade aud he always paid
a small proportion in cash. Insisted
that the seller deposit the money in
one of OHvefV many banks, and
thus the endless chain of kiting
continued,* Unlit Oliver's trade
amounted into the hundreds of thou-
esnds.
He purchased automobiles tX
whttlegale and gave them right and
left in wanton prodigality to his
newly-made friends. He built many
fine houses and the whole country
stood aghast at his wealth and hla
napoleonic business ventures.
Oliver was seriously ill shortly
after his arrival In Climax and his
recovery was In part due to the
faithful nursing given him by Miss
Rosa English, a beautiful young girl,
sixteen years of age. who tenderly
administered to his wants.
When he recovered from his des-
per|ite illness, ha courted tha beau
tiful girl «nd la a short time they
A SERIOUS CHARGE
MADE AGAINST CHIEF OF POLICE
OF BATE8BURG.
Arrested on Warrant Sworn Out by
a Woman Who Says He Attempted
to Assault Her.
A dispatch to The New* and Cour
ier says Mr. John J. Darby, chief of
police of the town of Batesburg, was
arrested Wednesday by Deputy Sher
iff Sim J. Miller upon a warrant
sworn out by a woman of that town,
chaqing him with assault with In
tent to ravish. Mr. Darby was car
ried to Lexington and was immedi
ately released upon a $2,000 bond.
The crime Is alleged to have been
committed on or about the 7th day
of February, thie year. Mr. Darby
and his friends declare that he is
innocent, and that It la a concocted
scheme to Injure him because of his
untiring efforts In rounding up the
band of thieves, who had been oper
ating In Batesburg for several weeks,
and which finally resulted In the ar
rest of three young men.
Mr. Darby employed two detec
tives to work up the case, and one
of the men arrested was the son of
the woman who has brought the war
rant against Darby. This, It Is al
leged, incensed the woman, and the
arrest of Mr. Darby upon the very
serious charge of attempted crimi
nal assault followed Wednesday. The
fact that more than three months
were allowed to elapse before she
issued the warrant, the friends of
the chief assert, shows conclusively
that it is a concocted scheme.
It Is said that strong evidence
xgalnst the woman Is on hand, and
her arrest on several charges will
nrobably follow within the next day
>r two. The woman Is a widow, her
husband bavin died about two years
ago. She has been operating a
boarding house in Batesburg since
her husband’s death. It Is said that
vhe will enter suit against the town
>f Batesburg for $20,000 for hav-
ng removed from her home an elec-
ric light meter.
Mr. Darby moved from Chester to
Batesburg about two years ago, and
has made a most excellent police
iffleer. He has been unrelenting in
his efforts to put the ban on crime
>f ail kinds in the town, and has
nade a host of friends." It is said
;hat the town of Batesburg will
'stand by" him in this trouble, and
that he will have no trouble in mak-
ng a strong defence. His arrest
•aused no ttttle sensation at Bates
burg.
JUMPED FROM A WINDOW
While Asleep and Sustained Fatal
Injuries.
Mr. B. B. Mouzon, of Klngstree,
ifter retiring for the night, arose
n a stupor of some kind, or a dream,
;s he calls it, and imagined that he
vas in a fox chase. Jumped or fell
rom a second story window in the
esldence of Mr. Graham, of Cade,
i distance of about twenty feet, to
he ground, inflicting a very serious
md probable fatal Inpury.
Mr. Graham's family were awak-
ned by groans and calling for help
rom the unfortunate man. Dr. C.
D. Rollins, of Lake City, was
ailed in. and was with the injured
nsn in a short time, but so far the
xtent of his injuries has not been
scertained.
Mr. Mouzon Is a man about 35
ears of age and has a wife and two
hlldren.
Champion Stingy Man.
Capt. Pickel. a police of St. Louis,
'•to., claims that he has found the
tlngiest man in the world. This
nan, although he owns property and
s reputed wealthy, is said to gather
igar stumps for his smoking, to go
o a barber’s college and get a free
lair cut, and to borrow a razor every
veek from a different neighbor so
>s to shave hinrself to save a dime.
A COZY HOME
For Contadonto Veterans
Their Old Age
in
FORMALLY OPENED
>ere married and he promised to
ndow her with his millions. He
ived like a prince and spent money
avlshly upon his young bride. He
•stablished elegant stables and
>ought blooded horses and almost
veekly added to his stock of auto
mobiles.
He bought more banks and more
ands, and signed contracts fdr the
building of towns in the prarle
country and drew at will on New
fork hanks. His Waterloo came
when a check for $1,000 given to an
Albany contractor, was returned un
paid..,—, —— ■ ■■
Then the people became auspic-
iouj %od hi* arreat followed hie flight
in an automobile vltb his bride.
The couple were overtaken at Bain
bridge and Oliver was sent to Jail
pending an iavoatigation.
When Oliver, alias Harding, was
arrested in Bainbrtdge, it Is said,
the body of his automobile was half
full of currency In bills of large
denomination, which was wrapped
in newspapers.
It is $aid that Oliver is not only
wanted in Misslaalppi, where it is
alleged he has eleven years tp serve
In the penitentiary, bat thft he is
wanted in Atlanta and Birmingham
by federal authorities. H la said
be bes served a term In the Ohio pen
itentiary for obtaining diamonds un
der false* p*'
that D»T
In Columbia on Thursday Afternoon.
A Full Description of the Home
and How it Will Be Managed.
Has All the Conveniences of a
Modern Home.
The Confederate Home at Colum
bia was formally opened Thursday
afternoon, with appropriate exercis
es. Addresses were made by Gover-
ner Ansel, Senator F. H. Weston and
Col. P. Cardwell. The following de
scription of the Home we take from
the Columbia Record:
If any Confederate veteran re
maining the guest of relatives or
continuing to dwell In his own house
enjoys more of creature comfort, of
care and of congenial companion
ship than do his comrades now gath
ered within the home, a grateful
State hag here provided for them,
happy {ar beyond the average is
his lot; for In the planning of this
home no detail has been omitted
that thoughtful, generous. loving
kindness could suggest or willing
hands could by untiring diligence
supply. One who has visited it must
necessarily in writing of it use often
the word "home,” for that is what it
is. A home Its founders studiously
wrought to make It and the last act
of the builders was to Inscribe the
word over its doorway, so that the
approaching veteran's first glimpse
of the house that is like to be his
last earthly dwelling place, should
show him that this was indeed a
home—his home—-"The Confederate
Veterans' Home."
The home will be formally opened
tomorrow. The Daughters of the
Confederacy in Columbia have come
gallantly to the rescue or the com
mission in charge and supplemented
largely the appropriation which the
legislature, through failure to under
stand the conception entirely, failed
to make sufficient, and accordingly
the privilege of directing the opening
ceremonies has been given to these
devoted women. They invite tha at
tendance on that occasion of ail per-
ons interested In the home, and It is
to be hoped that many will avail
themselves of this opportunity to in
spect the institution, tluch an in
spection, especially if re-enforced by
little interviews with the 20-odd vet
erans already domiciled in the home,
will remove from the mind of any
reasonable person whatever misgiv
ings may have arisen in regard to
the wisdom of the home s establish
ment or its adequacy to the needs of
the veterans for whom it is Intend
ed.
The place looks like a home, even
from a distance. The low white
building, green-trimmed and girdled
by trees, with its white-columned
porticos, looks out over the city and
in the near foreground on every side
are the gently rolling fields of a farm
calculated to gladden every farmer's
heart—and most of the veterans
come from farms On the slope of
the opposite hill to the southwest lie
the buildings of the Hospital for tlie
Insane, making a picturesque feature
of the view, but unconnected with
the home In any sense, even In ap
pearance. Trolley cars of two lines
pass in view to the right and in
front, and in the evening the light
and sounds of the busy city pleasant
ly suggest the nearness of youth and
abounding vitality. The place is
peaceful, but not smggestive of
boredom.
The house is of one story, with
basement, substantially built in
frame construction. Its genera] plan
is that of a Latin cross, the main
corridor, long, wide and airy, in
tersected by a narrower hall running
approximately east am. west. The
house faces southward. Entering
from the front, a wide porch, pro
vided with lights for the evenings,
gives upon the main corridor, where
arm chairs and settees are grouped
in a way s-uggestive of casual cozy
gatherings after dinner. Tp the left
is the commandant's office, to the
right a parlor for the efitertalnmenT
of the home’s friends, the very best
of whom are ladies. The living
quarters of the commandant and his
wife are entered hy the second door
upon the right. The second room,
where the veteran* itoregather to
talk, to read, to play faqaef,. wrjta
\
Horn are such that there is always
some breeze.
The dinging room is a big. airy
place with plenty of windows and
tables seating eight or ten persons
each. When a Record reporter visit
ed the home {he other day supper
time was near and the tables tad
been set, a significant item being tne
vate of fresh flowers from the yard
in the center of each;
Behind the dining room is one of
the best equipped kitchens In the
State, where a splendid coOk works
at a gre.,t massive range. An as
sistant cook has been engaged and
will report for duty shortly. In the
rear of the kitchen are conveniently
located the pantry, the linen room
and the medicine chest. In the
latter are kept first-aid bandages and
household remedies, besides such
drugs as are likely to be needed from
time to time. The main store rooms
are in the basement, along with the
heating apparatus. The home has
a large kitchen garden, from which
the veterans are* already enjoying
their own beans and turnips. Later
on there will be other vegetables,
with melons and green corn.
Full records of every department
are kept. For instance, when asked
about the bills of fare, the command
ant turned to his desk and drew forth
at random one sheet from a bundle.
It happened to be the menu card for
May 22nd and was as follows:
Breakfast—Hominy, breakfast ba
con, broiled; hot biscuit, butter, sy
rup, coffee.
Dinner—Lima means, rice and to
matoes, Irish potatoes, corn bread,
light bread, butrer, coffee.
Supper—Hominy, butter, hot bir-
cuit, stewed fruit, syrup, coffee.
"We try to. make the bill of fare
a liltie different each day," said
the commandant. "Twice a week
and on Sundays we have dessert and
on two days we have soup—mighty
good soup. Our cook is a fine one."
The veterans seemed contented
and thoroughly at home. The com
mandant, Capt. W. D. Starling, is a
veteran; the adjutant, Capt. B. F.
Day, was also a soldier of the Con
federacy. They are deeply interested
In their work and a fine thing for
the veterans, too, is the presence,
night and day, of Mrs. Starling. The
institution is directly in charge of
Capt. Starling, chairman of the Con
federate Home commission. The
government of the home, as arrang
ed by Col. Cardwell and Capt.
Starling, is simple and kindly.
There are few rules and none of
these are such as an oh! soidter
would not immediately see the neces
sity of having. For instance, the
veterans are free to come and go
as they like, visiting the city or
walking about the suburbs Capt.
Starling stipulating only that they
shall report to him where they ex
pect to go. This is necessary be
cause some of them are feeble and
for all of them he is responsible to
their relatives and to the State.
The heaitfi of the veterans is
doubly provided for. The institu
tion's regular physician, Dr. Wil
liam Weston, makes daily visits, and
two of the veterans are themselves
practitioners of long experience.
The assembly room has been
equipped with a big phonograph and
a piano and doubtless all the news
papers of the State will be glad to
enter the home on their free sub
scription lists when the matter is
called to their attention.
Careful and disinterested investi
gation by Record reporters has dis
posed to their satisfaction of every
criticism against the home, from the
veteran s standpoint, that has eome
to their ears. The home has noth
ing of the jail or poor farm about It;
it has absolutely no connection with
the State Hospital for the Insane;
the veteran who enters it does not
lose his pension nor any part of it;
there is nothing of reproach or hu
miliation connected with residence
there, nor is any effort made to com
pel the entrance of veterans—on the
contrary, the admissions are limited
by law to 81, two from each county,
and in each case the commission
must be shown by proper papers
that there are good reasons why the
applicant should be received. There
is probably not one veteran in 50
who would not be both more com-
fortable physically and happy men
tally here than In his present situ
ation. He may be well provided for
at home, from a material standpoint,
but here he will have congenial com
panionship in addition to creature
comfort at least equal to his present
having And finally, he need not
sit.? If conditions at the home dis
please him.
SLAIN BY NEGRO
Mr. John watson Assassinated
Near Graansea.
A POSSE IN PURSUIT
i
Over Two Hundred People With
Bloodhounds Are on the Hunt
for the Assassin, and It is Hoped
and Believed That lie Will Be
Caught.
A special dispatch from Conway
says Mr. John Watson, a prominent
young man of the Greensea section
of the county, about 20 miles from
Conway, was Wednesday waylaid sn
shot by Melvin Watson, a notorloui
negro. Mr. Watson died a few hourg
after being shot.
Sheriff Sessions learned of the af
fair by telegram and wetxt immedi
ately to the secne of the killing.
News reached Conway after the
sheriff left that more than 200 peo
ple with bloodhounds went in searsh
of the negro, who fled as soon as be
fired the fatal shot.
What has been learned at Con
way of the affffairs came to telephone
from Ixjris, a railroad station, about
six mllea from Greensea, and hence
full particulars have not been learn
ed.
From the best Information obtain
able it appears that Mr. Watson ear
ly Wednesday morning had started
to Tabor, N. C., in a wagon. When
only a short distance from Greensea
he was fired upon by the negro, who
was crouched in a fence Jam.
Mr. Watson was superintendent of
the large plantation of Hon. J. P.
Derham, and It is stated that a young
son of Mr. Derham was In the wagon
when th(e shooting occurred. He
was not hurt.
Greensea is a populous section and
a large posse gathered In a very short
time and went in pursuit of the negro
who, It is said, is & very dangerous
character.
Mr. Watson was a young man of
wide family connection and very
popular throughout the country, and
great Indignation Is felt over the
crime.
TRIBUTE TO DAVIS
MEMORY OF CONFEDERATE
CHIEFTAIN HONORED. ’ ... .
COTTON ACREAGE REDUCED.
Decrease Placed at Three and a Half
Per Cent.
In its monthly cotton report Friday
the New York Journal of Commerce
shows that, compared with last year,
cotton avearges have been reduced
3.5 per cent, according to over 1,800
reports from special correspondents
of an avearge date of May 25. This
is approximately the same result as
given in last month’s report, when
the consensus of opinion indicated a
reduction of 4 per cent.
On the basis of the revised area
planted In 1908 of 33,370.000 acres,
the present season starts off with
32,200,000 acres. The reduction has
been largely brought through the
high prlrg-s of provisions camming
more land to be thrown Into corn
and small grains at the expense of
cotton Fear of the boll weevil In
Louisiana and Mississippi, especially
In the former, caused heavy curtail
ment, being 2.8 and 6.7 per cent
less, respectively.
All other States show declines ex-.
cept Texas, Tennessee and Florida.
The increase of 4.5 per cent in Tex
as ia due principally to drought,
which destroyed grain crops. This
acreage went Into cotton.
CYCLONE IN GEORGIA
letters o>~ otherwise amuse them
selves when the weather or inclina
tion drives them in from the lawn
or the piazzas, which at this season
are naturally preferred. A large
room is provided on thla corirjdor
for the safe storage of the veterans’
trunks and personal property not
needed in the dormitories. These
latter, with the bath-rooms and tel-
let-rooma, open off the cross-hatl.
Each dormitory contains four single
beds, enameled white, with comfort
able mattresses and neat bine
spreads. The bath and toilet ar
rangements artf altogether modern,
sanitary and cohvealent. Everything
Is clean as a hound’s tooth. The
lights throughout the bnildlng are
efSferlc and the entire building ia
GORE ASTONISHES SENATE.
Several Houses Wrecked aud a Few
I’ersons Injured.
A half done persons, probably
more, wqre injured in a .terrifio ey
clone that paseed over the lower part
or Screven county, Ga., at 4 o'cloce
Thursday afternoon, and while no
Uft; has yet been lost because Of!tY*
passing many persons escaped by
seeming miracles, houses falling
about and upon them, without inflict
ing fatal injuries. The cyclone came
from the direction of Dover and dls^
appeared from there in a northeaster
ly direction.
Many of those who were caught
by the cyclone saw It approaching.^
but owing to Hs velocity were un
able to find places of safsty before
It atruck. It is stated that the
storm's appearance was that of an
ordinary whilwind. snch aa are fre
quently seen In cummer, though It
Oklahoma’s Blind Senator Has Mar
velous Memory.
Senator Gore astonished the Sen
ate Wednesday by the citation of a
long list of cotton and woolen manu
factoring companies and giving their
earnings, capital stock, surplus, etc.
He undertook to show that corpora
tions engaged In the cotton ana wool
en industries are making very large
earnings.
The speech was one that no ofher
Senatof would have attempted with
out constant reference to notes, but
the blind Statesman from the South
west found no difficulty In giving
off hand the greatest variety of de
tails without the ability to assist
his memory In any way.
Referring to the cotton and woolen
manufacturers, and with a rasping
and slnj^tex. jone*JLhe Oklahoma Sen
ator said he did not blame them for
their large earnings^
'”T know they are Intelligent citi
zens," he aaid, "Judging from their
business success and from their se
lection^ ftf_ United States Senators.”
A Park Bearing Hie Name Opened
at Fali-vlew, Kentucky, With Ap
propriate Ceremonies.
At Falrvlew, Ky. p among the trees
which have grown up above the
birth-place of Jefferson Divls since
the year, early In the nineteenth
century, when the Davis family re
moved to Mississippi, the efferson
Davis Memorial Park was simply
dedicated Thursday. Northeast,
across the State, la Hodgenvlile,
near which Abraham Lincoln was
bom eight monthe after hie grea:
opponent. Falrvlew Is still a tiny
town rimmed with forests and slop
Ing gently, toward the grass-grown
battlefields of Tennessee.
In September. 1907. when the
grey grown and enfiladed ranks of
Kentucky's famous "orphant brig
ade" met In Glasgow, Ky., at the
grave of Gen Joseph H. Lewla, their
commander, former Governor Boli
var Buckner, of Kentucky, broached
the plan of the Jefferson Davis Mem
orial Association. Subscriptions
were started, the women of the South
aided nobly, and when all but $4,000
had been raised, tp purchase seven
teen acres at Falrvlew, Gen. Ben
nett H. Young, commanding the Ken
tucky division of the Confederate
Veterans, advanced that sum and
made, the memorial possible.
Oratory, music and flowera made
the day notable. A basket dinner
and a barbecue were provided by the
people of Todd and Christian coun
ties, which share equally the town
of Falrvlew, and when Col. W. A.
Milton, of Louisville, as chairman
in the absence of Qen. Young, who
was detained in Chicago, opened the
meeting, the homestead of the Davis
es was crowded. Gen. Young, a
prominent Louisville lawyer, wrote
the chief address of the day, and
It was read by Col. Milton. He as
serted that every Southern State
should rear a shaft to Jefferson Da
vis, whose character and sufferings
ho dwelt upon sympathetically. He
paid high tribute to Lincoln, say
ing that the time had come when
men might speak kindly and truly
of the past. He said the meaaage
which the united South gave to the
world today was one of everlasting
peace.
The plan Is to raise $30,000 more
with which to build a memorial tem
ple to contain all the records of the
Confederacy, and to remodel a two
story residence upon the Davis farm
to house the widows of Confederate
soldiers.
The seventeen acres which are to
enclose the memorial buildings to
be erected adjoin the original nine
acres, which were the remains of
the plantation upon which Samuel
Davis, -father of the President, set
tled when he came from Virginia
in 1793. These nine were given by
Mr. Davis to Bethel Church on the
occasion, June 21, 1886, of his last
visit to his first home. To the peo
ple of the neighborhood this church
stands as a memorial to their great
neighbor, and to hla prida In his
old Kentucky home they ascrlb# the
fancy which led him to call hla land
along the Mississippi shore of the
Gulf "Beauvoir."
The site of the memorial slopes
softly from a splendid grove, which
crowns Hs helghest point. It Is In
the heart of Falrvlew. and the pres
ent plan Is to place all the records
of the Confederacy In the temple
to be built, within the shadow of the
tree*. A two-story residence is also
on the land, and the Intent Is to
make of this a home for the widow*
of the Confederates whom age has
rendered decrept and from whom the
years and the war have taken hus
bands and sons.
RIOTS BEGIN
Hi
PhiladtlpMa Strut Car
flats 3»v(B«r
MANY PERSONS KURT
Strike Sympathiser* Are
Attempt of Tract km
Rob Gera After Nightfall With
Strike-Breakers, and Several Blot*
Result, Demolishing Many Oars.
The street car strike la Philadel
phia Is becoming serious. One po
liceman shot and probably fatally
injured "early a'hundred persona
and battered, either by po
licemen or strike sympathisers, and
five car* wrecked and the& haraad.
ia the result of an attempt on the
part of the Rapid Tranait Company
to operate their ear* Wedaeeday. b/
imported strike-break ere.
The point at which the moot se
rious rioting occurred Is known a*
Kensington MI1J district. Ia thi*
section of the city there 11 vet nearly
every nationality, the foreign ele
ment predominating. When the
Traction Company announced that
cars would be run Wednesday night,
nearly ail the store-keepres la the
Kensington district, knowing tha
temper of the residents there, clos
ed their stores promptly at $ o'clock.
As one car after another left
the barn, crowds stood oa the street
corners In sullen silence. Finally,
a boy cried "scab,” and Immediately
he was pursued by a policeman, who
was riding on the car As the of
ficer started for the youth the crowd
closed in upon him, and so quickly
was this done that he was unable
to draw his revolver. The weapon
was taken from him, and 1* believed
to have been the same revolver with
which Policeman Levy was shot a
few minutes later.
The fire which had been smoulder
ing now burst into a flame of fury.
The objective point was Allegbaaey
avenue, and in lees than half aa
hour seven cars were wrecked* five
being completely demolished aad
burned.
The police officers were powerless
at the moment to combat the mob,
but a riot call brought half a hun
dred Mneroats to the eceae. and the
crowd was driven back. But the
damage had been done and there was
little need of the preservers of the
peace so long as no attempt was
made to run cars from the barn.
While the serious disturbance was
in progress in the Northeastern sec
tion of the city, there were Incipi
ent riots at the car barns at Six
teenth and Jackson streets, in the
down-town dlatrlct, and at Forty-
ninth and Woodland avenue, in the.
West Philadelphia diitrlcf.
The crowd grew meanaclng when
an attempt was made to run cars
from the down-town barns, and a
policeman who endeavored to qnell
the disturbance was ducked In a
water trough. Twenty-five plain
clothes-men and policemen #asw
rushed to the ecene on a special
trolley, and after the ear* were rnn
hack into the barn there was no
further trouble.
• —
BAD END OF LIFB.
BETTER LET IT ALONE.
Movement on Foot to Reorganise
Cl cm son College.
It is understood that Mr. Mendel
L. Smith, former speaker of the
house and at the present one of the
floor leaders will Introduce a reao-
lutlon, at the next session of the leg
islature calling for the appointment
of a commission consisting of the at
torney general and two other lawyers
of reputation and standing to look
into the feasibility, advisahlliey and
legality of the proposition of buy
ing out the Interest of the Clemson
heirs In the Clemson estate and mak
ing Clemson college In fact aa well
as In name a State college.
heated hy steam. Every room U aa
It Is reported I outside room aad all openings are ! was very much larger aad moved
a In Atlanta. J screened. The location
Killed by Convicts.
Several officers were killed, this
week, by convicts during an upris
ing at the Zulntana Roo mines, Mex
ico's penal settlement.
_ Made Big Haol. . - -
Mrs. George Shea, of Duluth,
Minn., was robbed, this week. In
Seattle. Wash., of IXt.OOO, She had
ToncfiaTed the "caslfTn a bed in the
home where she was visiting, and
wheq she returned to the room the
cask was gone. — / *
Killed in Wreck.
The California fast mall on the
Santa Fe was wrecked at Peabody.
Kao . this weak, killing H. C. Thomp
son, a posts) elork.
* An Old Man Dies.
Mr. W. A. Kelly, who died near
Statesboro, Ga., recently, was the
oldest man In that section. He was
one hundred and one years old on
the tenth of last .March. He
bprn ro South Carolina In ISOS
Killed
Explosion of a cannon at St.
Mary*. O.. this week, killed Hi
Aged North Carolinian Found Dand
** ' *
In Fence Corner.
A special from Boone, N. C.. to
the Charlotte Observer says Mr. Ran
som Coffey, an aged cltlxen of Blue
Ridge township, was found dead a
few days ago near the roadMde.
He had been visiting some of his
relatives at this place and had start
ed on bis return home. A Mr. Trip
let, noticing a strange mule In kin
field, went to turn It outside and '
recognized it as Mr. Coffey’a. Think
ing strange of the animal having
the saddle on he told his wife iff
go to one of the neighbor’s and In
quire If they had seen anything of
the old gentleman, while he went ia
usk another neighbor. On her way
Mrs. Triplet came upon the old man
sitting in a fence cor ner dead. The
coroner was called and the verdict
of the Jury was that he died of heart
failure.
Rat Bite Kills a Baby.
Blood poisoning, brought oa ky tka
bite of a rat, caused the death of
11 tGeEugeneJajftleaa of Ottawa,thJa
week. The” rat bit the babe while
It was lying In Its cradle and al
though" medical afd was gam:
death resulted ia a few hoars.
At the annual sale
Jersey cattle at
this week, the high
sold, was a bull, VIolarg
ly, which was bought k$ the W.
Kenlnlock stock tairm
Mo., for «1S.$00. R
Boy. another ball, lifca sold to O. D.
Hudson, of New .Tort4
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MWpA His
’Tfe got to murder some
ssid Fred, Daniels,